Attachment for taking-cameras for making stereoscopic moving-picture films.



A. WAYDITOH. ATTACHMENT FOR TAKING CAMERAS FOR MAKING STEREOSGOPIG MOVING PICTURE FILMS. APPLICATION FILED JANTS, 1913.

1,071,837 Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

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A. WAYDITGH.

ATTACHMENT FOR TAKING CAMERAS FOR MAKING STERBOSCOPIC MOVING PICTURE FILMS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3, 1913.

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UNITED sTArns rarnnr OFFICE.

ALOYS WAYDITCH, OF NEW YORK, K- Y., ASSIGNUR TD STEREO-KINEMA FILM C0,, 01?

NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION 01 NEW YORK.

TILIIIS.

Specification 0! Letters Patent.v

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

Application filed January 3, 1913. Serial No. 739,949.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, more WAYnI'roH, a citizen of the Kingdom of Hungary, residing in New York, inthe borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Taking-Cameras for Making Stereoscopic Moving-Picture Films, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved attachment for taking cameras for making stereoscopic moving-picture films.

On May 22, 1912, an application for a patent for a taking-camera for making stereoscopic moving-picture films, Serial No. 698,953, was filed by me. I have discovered, however, that the same result can be obtained by means of an attachment to the taking-camera for making the ordinary moving-picture films, so that these cameras may be used with my attachment for making stereoscopic films and without attachment for making the ordinary films, whereby the production of the stereoscopic moving-picture films is facilitated and all the advantages of the special taking-camera re ferred to obtained in a simpler and greatly improved manner; and for the purpose described the invention consists of an attachment for taking-cameras for movingicture films, which comprises stationary si e-mirrors'placed at an angle to the vertical longitudinal center-plane of the camera,.parallel mirrors placed back to back intermediately between the side-mirrors, means for alternately placing the parallel mirrors into position parallel with one or the other station'- ary side-mirror, openings in front of the side-mirrors, and means for adjusting the side-mirrors into proper angular position relatively to the vertical center-plane of the camera.

The invention consists further of a controlling device by which the correct position of the pictures to be taken by the taking-camera is controlled; and the invention consists lastly of certain details of construction which will be fully described hereinafter and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a rear-elevation of my improved attachment for taking-cameras for maln'ng stereoscopic moving-picture films. Fig, 2

is a horizontal section on line 2, 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is, a vertical transverse section on line 3, 3', Fig.1, and Fig. 4 is a detail planview ofthe controlling device.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the front-wall of my improved attachment for'taking-c'ameras. The front-wall is made of brass or other suitable material and pro vided with openings 0. Adjacent to the openings are arranged on the front-wall A, two vertical mirrors m, which are adjusted to an angle of 45 to the vertical centerplane of the taking-camera, one on each side of the same- Each side-mirror m is attached at its front-edge to a metallic sleeve m which is secured to an upright shaft m that is supported in step and neck-bearings f, f of an adjustable frame 1, which has approximately the shape of the letter C. Each frame is fulcrumed to a pivot f, which is arranged intermediately between the upper and lower portions of the C-shaped frame f, the frame swinging on said pivot, while, after proper adjustment of the mirrors into vertical direction, the upper and lower ends of the frame are clamped to thefront-wall .A'by clamping screws f which extend over the ends of the frames. After the position of the mirrors is obtained by the adjustment of the supporting frames f, the mirrors are in their proper position for making exposures for the film.

.Intermediately between the side-mirrors and supported in suitable step and neckbearings (Z (1 of the front-wall A isarranged an upright shaft (Z, to o 'posite sides of which are applied two parall l mirrors n of smaller size than the side-mirrors m, the aXis of the shaft d being in line with the vertical longitudinal eente'raplane of the taking camera and the attachment. The mirrors n are set normally at an angle of 45 to the front-wall of the attachment. Intermittent rotary motion is imparted to the 'upright shaft of and the parallel mirrors n thereon from the driving shafts of the taking-camera, said. shaft being. driven by the motor of the taking-camera and transmits its rotary motion by hevel gear-wheels g, g to a short vertical intermediate shaft 8 which; turns in hearings on the lower porsaid intermediate shaft being provided with a disk 9 having a crank-shaped extension 9 carrying a pin 9 as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Near the lower part of the upright shaft d is arranged a star-shaped wheel 9 which is provided with four radial recesses'gr and intermediate arc-shaped recesses g, which latter correspond with and form contact with the circumference of a collar 9* on the disk 9 The rotation .offthe intermediate shaft 8 produces the intermittent engagement of the crank-pin g with theradial recesses g and thereby the intermittent turning for a quarter of a rotation andsimultaneously the turning of the mirrors it through an angle of so as to placethem alter'natel into a position parallel with the left-ha l mirroror parallel with the right-hand mirror m and enable the light-rays from the objects to be taken to be reflected from the left sidemirror n. and the mirror 11., then parallel thereto through the lens and the openings of the shutter of the taking-camera arranged back of the same while the next quarter turn of the star-shaped wheel 03 places the second mirror 1?. parallel with the righthand mirror, and produces thereb a second picture on the film in connection with the lens and shutter of the taking-camera. The position of the lens, shutter and film is indicated in dotted lines in Figs. 2-and '3, the film being located at the proper focusing distance to the rear of the lens and shutter.

With each forward motion of the film in the taking-camera, first a picture from the left-hand side-mirror, and the mirror 'n parallel thereto, then a picture by the righthand side-mirror and the mirror parallel thereto is produced on the film, which, as the openings in the front-Wall of the attachment correspond with thedistance between the eyes, form alternating stereoscopic pictures on the film.

To assist in the accurate positioning of the side-mirrors, the shafts of the same are provided at their upper ends with worm gearwheels 10, that intermesh with worms to on a horizontal shaft 8?, which turns in suitable bearings on the rear of the front-wall A, and which is provided with hand-wheels w" at each end for being conveniently taken hold of either by the right or the left hand for producing the proper angular position of the side-mirrors toward the vertical center-plane of the taking-camera.

Above one of the side-mirrors m is arranged on the front-wall of the casing A a controlling device which corresponds in some respects to the finder of a photographic camera and which consists of two smaller auxiliary mirrors m one on the extension of the upright shaft m of the left-hand side-mirror, and the other on a short auxiliary shaft m are interposed two stationary reflecting prisms 72 one vertically above the other, the longer side of the upper .one being parallel with the left-hand and the longer side of the lower one parallel with the right-hand mirror m, so that when exposures for themoving-picture films are made, the pictures shown on the rear faces of the prisms appear properly centered by their upper and lower portions on the prisms. As soon as the upper half of the picture reflected .on the upper prism is not properly centered with v the lower half of the picture produced on the lower prism, then the adjustment of the auxiliary and main-mirrors has to. be made by the worm-gear transmissions so as to bring the pictures reflected on the upper as well as on the lower prism into the center-line, and

control or correct thereby the accurate posi-. tion of the main-mirrors m in the taking of the moving pictures on the film. The ad justment of the auxiliary mirrors m is produced by the worm-gear 'w on the shaft m described in connection with an auxiliary worm w on the shaft .8 and a worm-gear w on the shaft 8 as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. By the adjustment of the auxiliary mirrors of the controlling device, the principal sidemirrors m of the taking attachment are adjusted to their proper relative angle toward each other for making accurate exposures on the moving-picture film of the takingcamera.

My improved attachment for takingcameras permits the use of the ordinary taking-cameras at present for making also stereoscopic moving-picture films, so that the expense of a special taking-camera for this purpose is obviated.

I claim: I

1. An attachment for taking-cameras for making stereoscopic moving-picture films, comprising a front-wall havmg openings, side-mirrors inclined toward each other, parallel mirrors between said side-mirrors, and means for imparting intermittent r0- tary motion to said parallel mirrors so as to reflect the ictures to be taken by the right or left side-mirror.

2. An attachment for taking-cameras for making stereoscopic moving-picture films, comprising a front-wall having openings, side-mirrors inclined toward each other, parallel mirrors between said stationary mirrors, means for intermittently rotating said mirrors so as to reflect the pictures alternately reflected by the right or left side mirror, and means for transmitting rotary motion from the driving shaft of the takingcamera to the intermittently-rotating means. 3. An attachment for taking-cameras for making stereoscopic moving-picture films, comprising a front-wall having openings, side-mirrors adjacent to said openings and inclined toward each other, arallel intermediary mirrors, means for lntermittently rotating said intermediary mirrors, and means for adjusting the inclined side-mirrors into vertical position.

"4:. An attachment for taking-cameras for making stereoscopic moving-picture films, comprising a front-wall having openings, side-mirrors adjacent to said openings and inclined toward each other, parallel intermediary mirrors, means for intermittently rotating said intermediary mirrors, a frame for supporting said side-mirrors, and means for adjusting said frame and mirrors for setting the mirrors into vertical position.

5. In an attachment for taking-cameras for making stereoscopic moving-picture films, the combination of a front-wall having openings, side-mirrors adjacent to said openings and inclined toward each other, parallel mirrors between said side-mirrors, means for intermittently rotating said arallel mirrors so as to transmit reflections first from one and then from the other sidemirror, and means for adjusting the relative angular osition of the mirrors toward the front-wa l. i i

6. In an attachment for taking-cameras for making stereoscopic movingpicture films, the combination of a front wall having openings, side-mirrors adjacent to said openings and inclined toward each other;

upright shafts for the same, parallel mi'rallel mirrors so as to take reflections first from one and then from the other sidemirror, and a controlling device arranged above one of the side-mirrors for adjusting the mirrors into proper angular osition, and means for adjusting the contro ling device simultaneously with the side-mirrors.

8. In an attachment for taking-cameras for making stereoscopic moving-picture films, a controllin device, comprising auxiliary mirrors inc ined toward each other, intermediary reflecting prisms one placed on top of the other, an means for adjusting the auxiliary mirrors relatively to the intermediary prisms.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALOYS WAYDITCH.

-Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, JOHN MURTAGH. 

